Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween Space Bats

The Cassini team sends "bats wishes" for a happy, healthy and fun Halloween.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes: Halloween is a modern-day holiday originating in the Celtic pagan holiday of Samhain. The custom of wearing costumes and masks on Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, In Scotland the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.

Costumes became popular for Halloween in the US in the early 1900s, for adults as well as children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New Yankee Stadium

New Yankee StadiumYankee Stadium is located in the Bronx, the northernmost borough of New York City. It s the home ballpark for the New York Yankees, replacing the previous Yankee Stadium, built in 1923. The new ballpark was constructed across the street, north-northeast of the Old Yankee Stadium, on the site of Macombs Dam Park. It opened April 2, 2009
Monument Park, which features the Yankees' retired numbers, as well as monuments and plaques dedicated to distinguished Yankees, has been moved from its location beyond the left field fences in the original Yankee Stadium to its new location beyond the center field fences at the new facility

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Grover Cleveland Alexander Philadelphia Phillies

Grover Cleveland Alexander Philadelphia Phillies
Digital ID: ppmsca 18458 Source: digital file from original photograph, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18458 (digital file from original photograph) , LC-USZ62-132539 (b&w film copy neg.). Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Grover Cleveland "Old Pete" Alexander (February 26, 1887 – November 4, 1950) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938.

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [1915]

This is a press photograph from the George Grantham Bain collection, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 1948. According to the library, there are no known restrictions on the use of these photos.

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TITLE: [Grover Cleveland Alexander & manager Pat Moran; in background are Joe Oeschger, Possum Whitted, & Milt Stock, Philadelphia NL (baseball)]

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NOTES: Title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.

Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Luna Park Coney Island Brooklyn

Luna Park Coney Island BrooklynLuna Park amusement park, Coney Island, at night, lit by many lights. Location: Brooklyn, NY, US. Date taken: September 12, 1904. Photographer: Wallace G. Levison (d. at Brooklyn, NY, March 9, 1924).
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Strawberry Fields Fall Colors

Strawberry Fields Fall Colors

Strawberry Fields Fall Colors

Strawberry Fields Fall Colors
3 views of Strawberry Fields Fall Colors New York City October 23, 2009.

Strawberry Fields is 2.5-acres of Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of John Lennon. It is named after the Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever.

The Central Park memorial was designed by Bruce Kelly, the chief landscape architect for the Central Park Conservancy. Strawberry Fields was inaugurated on what would have been John's 45th birthday, October 9, 1985, Yoko Ono, underwrote the project.

The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments, where Lennon lived the later part of his life.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Draft Card Burning Here

Draft Card Burning HereDraft Card Burning Here. Antiwar demonstrators protest in New York City's Central Park and march to the United Nations building, October 21, 1967.

"President Johnson meanwhile let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity."
Vidcap from Universal-International Newsreel. In 1976, the films' owner, MCA, made the decision to turn over ownership of all of these newsreels to the National Archives. The decision effectively ended Universal's copyright claim, releasing the films into the public domain.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Vintage Santa Claus A Merry Christmas

Vintage Santa Claus A Merry ChristmasVintage Santa Claus A Merry Christmas, Title School arts, Volume 8. Publisher, Davis Press, 1909, Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized: May 17, 2006. Subjects: Art>

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Red Ford Pick-up Truck 1949 F-1

Red Ford Pick-up Truck 1949 F-1

Red Ford Pick-up Truck 1949 F-1

Red Ford Pick-up Truck 1949 F-1
Classic Red Ford Pick-up Truck 1949 F-1, Ocean Spray promotional truck parked in Rockefeller Center at 30 Rock. October 10, 2009.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Winston ChurchillFranklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) November 28 and December 1, 1943.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Halloween Spider

Halloween SpiderA Halloween Spider, over six feet across weaves its web in front of a brownstone on east 72d street between Lexington and Park<>
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Lynyrd Skynyrd 18 wheeler Tour Truck

Lynyrd Skynyrd Tour Truck, Rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd play the Beacon Theatre New York City September - October 2009 on the God and Guns tour 1 of 3 18 wheelers sits on west 75th street between Broadway and Amsterdam at the stage door entrance.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Tour Truck

Lynyrd Skynyrd Tour Truck

Friday, October 09, 2009

Witch Flying on Broomstick

Witch Flying on BroomstickWitch Flying on Broomstick.

Title: School arts, Volume 15. Publisher: Davis Publications, 1916. Original: from the University of Michigan. Digitized: Nov 21, 2008. Subjects: Art.

HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. Plate XI gives other decorative devices that may be utilized in various ways for All Saints' festivities. These were made by grammar grade pupils, Johnstown, Pa., and sent to The School Arts Magazine by Miss Flora B. Potter, the city Supervisor of Drawing.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

4 Pumpkins Jack O' Lanterns

4 Pumpkins Jack O' Lanterns4 Pumpkins Jack O' Lanterns.

Title: School arts, Volume 15. Publisher: Davis Publications, 1916. Original: from the University of Michigan. Digitized: Nov 21, 2008. Subjects: Art
HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. Plate XI gives other decorative devices that may be utilized in various ways for All Saints' festivities. These were made by grammar grade pupils, Johnstown, Pa., and sent to The School Arts Magazine by Miss Flora B. Potter, the city Supervisor of Drawing.

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Monday, October 05, 2009

Three Angels Ringing Bells

three angels ringing bellsDigital ID: cph 3c04716 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-104716 (b&w film copy neg.)

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TITLE: Christmas chimes / from painting by Blashfield. CALL NUMBER: LOT 4446 [P&P]. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-104716 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY: Reproduction of painting by Blashfield, showing three angels ringing bells. MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print : halftone. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c1910.

CREATOR: Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918, artist. NOTES: K109820 U.S. Copyright Office. The Perry Pictures, no. 1020, Boston edition. Copyright by E.A. Perry.

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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Christmas Angels

Christmas AngelsChristmas Angels, by DONALD G. MITCHELL Image from, Title: St. Nicholas: a monthly magazine for boys and girls, Volume 1, Part 1. Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge. Published: 1874. Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized: Oct 24, 2007.
And all the angels in heaven do sing, On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; And all the bells on earth do ring, On Christmas Day in the morning.

And all the souls on earth do sing, On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; And all the bells on earth do ring, On Christmas Day in the morning.

Mr. Mitchell was born in Norwich, Connecticut, April, 1822. His father was the pastor of the Congregational church of that place, and his grandfather a member of the first Congress at Philadelphia, and for many years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Mr. Mitchell's last publication, Fudge Doings, was originally published in tho Knickerbocker Magazine. It consists of a series of sketches, in a connected form, of city fashionable life.

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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Witches and Pumpkin

Witches and PumpkinTitle: School arts, Volume 15. Publisher: Davis Publications, 1916. Original: from the University of Michigan. Digitized: Nov 21, 2008. Subjects: Art

HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. Plate XI gives other decorative devices that may be utilized in various ways for All Saints' festivities. These were made by grammar grade pupils, Johnstown, Pa., and sent to The School Arts Magazine by Miss Flora B. Potter, the city Supervisor of Drawing.
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